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  • In the Shadow of the Bomb

    Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist

    by S. S. Schweber ...
    Series series Princeton Series in Physics
    How two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to createIn 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questions about their roles and responsibilities. When the Cold War followed, they were confronted with political demands for their loyalty and McCarthyism's threats to academic freedom. ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

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  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From the First Atom Spy to 7/7 1945-2009

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service.The authors look in detail at MI5s role in the post-Cold War world; in particular, they consider its changing role as it took on the main responsibility in countering terrorist threats to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From M to Miss X 1909-39

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2 the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous secret services hid: MI5. Drawing on previously secret sources, this book lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German and Soviet espionage. It tells the sensational stories of the officers and agents and the enemies they confronted, from MI5s creation in 1909 under the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Almighty

    Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age

    by Dan Zak ...
    ****A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"**ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT** in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure sites in the world, a bastion of warhead parts and hundreds of tons of highly enriched uranium—enough to power thousands ... Read more

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  • Carrying a Nuke to Sevastopol: One Pilot, One Engine, and One Plutonium Bomb

    by Daniel Ford ...
    This story began as a study of lofting or tossing nuclear weapons, known as"LABs," for Low Altitude Bombing system. I became fascinated with the notion of using the prop-driven Skyraider for this purpose, and the story evolved into an account of what it would have been like to drive this 1940s aircraft to Sevastopol on the first day of the Third World War. "Crazy days," as one pilot called the ... Read more

    $3.78 CAD

  • The Naval Battle - What the U.S. Needs to Get Right

    by Hudson Owen ...
    A veteran naval blogger writes about compelling issues facing the U.S. Navy today and tomorrow. What size ships and how many of them do we really need? How vulnerable is the carrier battle group in waters infested with enemy subs and cruise missiles? How would we fight China or Iran? Is the Navy too politically correct? These and other issues are addressed in this timely 7,700 word essay. ... Read more

    $1.65 CAD

  • Below Test Depth

    by Moses F. Pollard ...

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War

    by Campbell Craig, Sergey Radchenko ...
    A study of nuclear warfare's key role in triggering the post-World War II confrontation between the US and the USSRAfter a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union had to establish a cooperative order if the planet was to escape an atomic World War III.In this provocative study, Campbell Craig and ... Read more

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  • Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program

    by David Albright, Andrea Stricker ...
    How did South Africa obtain nuclear weapons? How did the apartheid government dismantle this intensely secret program?In 1989, South Africa made the momentous decision to abandon its nuclear weapons, making it the first and still the only country that has produced nuclear weapons and given them up. Over thirty years, the apartheid regime had created a remarkably sophisticated capability to build ... Read more

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  • Death in Life

    Survivors of Hiroshima

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    In Japan, “hibakusha” means “the people affected by the explosion” — specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand — and be motivated to avoid — nuclear war. This ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Last Missile Site: An Operational and Physical History of Nike Site SF-88 Fort Barry, California

    by Stephen Haller, John Martini ...
    Go inside a Nike missile site!  The Nike missile launch site located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s Marin Headlands is the only mechanically operational Nike launch site in the United States.  It was left in operational condition by the Army when turned over to the National Park Service in the early 1970’s. View the inner working and relive the day-today operations. Told through ... Read more

    $9.94 CAD

  • Atomic Age America

    by Martin V. Melosi ...
    Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy¿focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power¿on the lives of Americans within a world context. The text examines the social, political, diplomatic, environmental, and technical impacts of atomic energy on the 20th and 21st centuries, with a look back to the origins of atomic theory. ... Read more

    $153.90 CAD